Training Leaders at All Levels for Your Church

Training Leaders at All Levels for Your Church

In this workshop, we will consider biblical guidelines and contemporary applications for training leaders. Then, more importantly, we will experience them!

Biblical Guidelines

• 1 Timothy 3:1-16 Overseers and deacons• Titus 1:6-9 Elders and overseers• Titus 2:1-10 Older men and women,

younger men, slaves• Ephesians 4:7-16 “Each of us” and

fivefold gifted leaders• 2 Timothy 2:2 Reliable men who

teach others

Lessons Learned from Church Planting, especially in the Global South:Leadership training must:• Be inclusive.• Use Training Materials for standardization.• Involve Socratic Discussion.• Be application/competency-oriented with

Assessment.• Be church-based for rapid multiplication.• Be affordable.• Be multi-level to impact spiritual children,

parents, etc.

Curricular Features

• “Study the Scriptures.”• “Consult the Scholars.”• True workbooks, not “fill-in-the-

blanks” (pre- and post-discussion).• Socratic discussion led by church

leaders.• “Apply the Principles.”

Let’s Try It!

• Break into groups of no more than 6.

• Assign one leader to facilitate.• Use the outline we’ll give you to

read and discuss the scripture.• If you have time, continue past the

scripture to review commentary and other questions as well.

Churches Founded by theEnd of the 1st Century

Eerdman’s Handbook to the History of Christianity (Berkhamsted, Herts, England: Lion Publishing, 1977), 66-67

Churches Founded by theEnd of the 2nd Century

Eerdman’s Handbook to the History of Christianity (Berkhamsted, Herts, England: Lion Publishing, 1977), 66-67

Churches Founded by theEnd of the 3rd Century

Eerdman’s Handbook to the History of Christianity (Berkhamsted, Herts, England: Lion Publishing, 1977), 66-67

Training Leaders at All Levels for Your Church